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, T.'A. LANSOHA.

PLOW.

No. 291,524. Patented Jan. 8, 1884.

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THEODORE. A.LANSGHA, OF FLANAGAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO HARMON LOCKER, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,524, dated January 8, 1584.

Application filed August 2. 18.53. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE A. LANSOHA, of Flanagan, in the county of Livingston, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Plow; andv I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification. in which like letters of reference re-' fer to like parts. and in which- Figure 1 represents aside elevation of my invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of a modification.

The object of this invention is the construction of a plow that shall be of as light draft as possible, and also be so evenly balanced as to run perfectly level in the ground, neither with its nose tendingto come up to the surface or rooting down too deep in the ground. To achieve these results, I make, in the first place, my beam six inches shorter than is customary, and then set it back upon the landside several inches farther still. I I

In the drawings, B represents the beam of the plow; A, the clevis; C, the standard; G, the landside; F, the mold-board; E, the nose or point of the plowshare, and H H the stilts or handles.

In Fig. 1, the beam B and standard 0 are shown formed in one piece of cast-iron, while Fig. 2 shows the beam B and standard 0 as separate, the former of wood and the latter of iron. From the standard 0 extends forward and downward a brace, D, cast as an integral part of said standard 0. The lower end of this brace is fastened to the landside G about five inches behind the share E. To the standard O is securedthe left handle, H, the upper portion of which is strengthened vertically by the brace-rod M. The right handle, H, is

rigidly attached to the mold-board F by means of the projecting lugs H and the brace-rod J, having a right-hand thread on one end and a left-hand thread on its other, whereby it can be screwed at one end into the standard 0 and at its other extremity into both the handleH and the mold-board F. This brace-rod J sup ports the said mold-board against the pressure of the furrow-slice. The said lugs H are made farther apart than the width of the handle H, and also approach each other outwardly. A small wedge being driven in between one of the lugs and the side of the handle H, the latter is firmly held in place. In the case of a wooden beam B, the standard 0 and its brace D are still cast, as before, in one piece, and

also another brace or arm D ro'ectin u ward and backward to the extreme rear end of the beam B. Both the upper ends of the standard and brace D are bolted to the beam B. The handles are secured to the mold-board and the standard, as before described.

What I claim as my invention, and for which I desire Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

In plows of that kind in which a shortened beam, B, has its standard 0 fastened to the rear extremity of the landside G and is stiffened by the forwardly-projecting brace D, the handles H H and brace-rod M, in combination with the mold-board F, having dovetail lugs H and a wedge, by means of which one of said arms, H, is rigidly secured to said mold-board, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing i-nvent-ion Ihave hereunto set my hand this 28th day of June, 1883.

THEODORE A. LANSCHA.

Witnesses:

GELORG HOVILL, HENRY LINNEMAN. 

